Hasp-lock



(No Modl.)

C. NEBLETT.

HASP LOCK..

No. 314,147. Patented Mar. 17, 1885.

INVENTUF:

ATTEST NrTan STATES PATENT' OFFICE.

CHARLES NEBLETT, OF'CINOINNATI, OHIO.

HASP-LOC K.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,147, dated March 17, 1885.

Application filed May 5, 1884. l (No model.)

To all whom it Trl/[ty con/cern,.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES NEBLETT, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hasp-Locks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in hasps or latches, which will be fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional perspective view of a door and frame, showing my improvement attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the door and frame, showing the hasp in plan thereon. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the hasp-catch.

A represents the door or gate upon which screws, thus preventing a removal of the catch the hasp is secured.

B represents the door frame or post to which the catch is attached.

G represents the lockbar or hasp proper, pivotally secured at one end to the door by a bolt, c. Instead of using the bolt c, a staple, rivet, or other fastening means may be employed, as customary. The free end C of bar G is bent outwardly and provided with a hole or eye, E.

D represents the catch, which the free end of the hasp-bar C engages. Catch D is composed of a fastening-plate and an upturned therewith.

keeper plate or arm, preferably made integral The fasteningplate is provided with countersunk holes to receivethe attaching-screws.

` e e are notches or openings in the keeperplate, to afford access to the fastening-screws for turning them into place.

D' represents an outwardly-turned tongue on the keeper-plate, of like configura-tion to the end C of the hasp-bar, and provided with a similar eye, E. When the door is closed and the hasp-bar dropped into locking engagement with the catch,the outwardly-turned tongues O and D lie in intimate contact,with their eyes E E in line, so that the bowf of a padlock, F, (shown in dotted lines) or other fastening device may be inserted. rIhe bar G,

when it is locked in the catch D, covers the without opening the lock.

A hasp or latch composed of a pivotal bar, O, having an outwardly-turned end, G E, in combination with a catch, D, having a keeperplate and tongue, D E, the said parts constructed and adapted to engage each other substantially as herein set forth.

CHARLES NEBLET'I.

Witnesses:

C. R. TALBOTT, JOHN E. JONES. 

